AW: [mythtv-users] Hauppauge Nexus-S with MythTV

[Martin Bene]

Hi Joel,

> Anyone using a Hauppauge Nexus-S DVB card with MythTV?  

Yes.

> I believe
> there is linux support for this card, can anyone confirm if it works
> and how well?  A friend of mine is interested in setting this up if
> it's at all feasible.

Drivers for this card are right in the standard Linux Kernel, driver
supports remote control, capture and playback via tv-out. The optional
CI Module is also supported, haven't used that yet.

In mythtv, capture and Remote control work well; I haven't been able to
figure out how to use the Tvout stuff yet, so I'm using tvout on my
normal video card.

Initial setup for the channels is a hassle with current release version,
however there's a patch in the works that contains automatic
tuning/channel setup for dvb, see developers list.

The main Problem I've seen so far: Mythtv can't gracefully handle tuning
to an encrypted channel (frontend freezes) and requires a lot of
fiddling round to get runing again afterwards, so you must make sure
that you only set up channels you can actually watch; for me that's ~50
channels from ~500 offered by the sattelite - the rest are encrypted.

Bye, Martin